Here’s what we looked at this week:
The $2.3 billion MSG Sphere, “the world’s largest LED screen,” was unveiled in Las Vegas. It’s great at displaying gigantic basketballs, but otherwise seems simultaneously excessive and limited.
Humanscale Design Studio’s QuickStand Lite adds standing desk functionality to standard desks.
Designer Hongliang Qian borrowed a “space-saving furniture” trick for his Rotating Table Service Robot, which makes unloading dishes easier.
This wild design for a semi truck, which sells for $153 and exists only in 3DS Max, is by HKV Studios.
Great Industrial Design student work: This Private Public Bench, by Dafi Reis-Doron.
Female athletes are two to eight times more likely to suffer an ACL tear than their male counterparts. Nike’s new Phantom Luna soccer cleats were designed specifically to reduce injury in female athletes.
There are some innovative design tricks in this hideaway workstation, designed/built in just 3 weeks by Bly Studios for a competing-designers TV show.
Audi Design and apprentices from their factory at Neckarsulm collaborated on this snappy electric resto-mod, breathing new life into a 50-year-old NSU Prinz.
